Can Labour Survive Without Union Money?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54444143
Clearly SKS wants to move the party to the electable zone but he's always going to have problems with the hard left and the unions. Clearly they need to shed the loonies but where will their future funding come from?

[douglas9401]

Probably Russia or the EUSSR, eh?

Change the bleedin' record.

[Old_Geezer]

If unions want a party that support some of their beliefs then any pause in funding has to be limited. More a warning shot across the bows. In any case parties need to hold distinct positions from other parties, otherwise there'd be no point in having more than one. If they want to shed looney stuff they need to start with shedding PC/woke nonsense, and monitoring of citizens with ID cards and the like. They need to try to adopt democracy, support of the nation, and western personal freedoms first.

[Hopkirk]

Red Len retires next year (no doubt on a fat pension)

Perhaps his successor will be closer to Sir Keir.

[ToraToraTora]

but do the unions actually want labour to ever win another election or are they just content to have their own way in perpetual opposition?

[ToraToraTora]

what you worried about doug? You don't vote Labour do you? ...or do you?

[douglas9401]

I vote whichever way you imagine I do Tora.

[ToraToraTora]

yep I reckon you're a Lib Non dem.

[douglas9401]

You had me as SNP a couple of weeks ago.


Are you Robert Peston and do I win £5?

[gulliver1]

[mushroom25]

your country is a one-party state Douglas. I don't know how you vote, but anything other than SNP would be wasted.

[theshedman]

That must be the best ever answer gulliver has given lol.

[dannyk13]

Shedman//That must be the best ever answer gulliver has given lol.//
Worthy of a BA.

[ToraToraTora]

I had you as SNP initially doug but you are too left wing to be a tartan Tory.

[ToraToraTora]

yep, BA for Gulliver for working out the time and date.

[ToraToraTora]

credit where it's due though if Steer Calmer is upsetting loonies like McCluskey then he's doing something right.